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"The wagon wheel pushed me forward. Maybe it saved me, maybe it covered me, protected me from more of the blast," she said.

“She’s a woman who is just as American as anyone else,” said De León, who went on to blast Congress for failing to pass comprehensive immigration laws.

With two blasts of its horn, MV Hebridean Isles bade farewell as it left the quay at Stornoway for a final time on Sunday, bound for Glasgow before it goes to the breakers.

Tata has closed its two coal-fired blast furnaces and is to replace them with an electric furnace that will need fewer workers.

Residents were so enraged in the 1920s that some carried out a series of attacks on the aqueduct, blasting it with dynamite.